My new book, Tar, comes out November 27. It’s a post-apocalyptic road trip adventure with wizards and cults and alternate dimensions and people with cybernetic body parts. If you want to know more about what it’ll be like, here are a few books to help you get a better feel.

Borne – Jeff VanderMeer

The New Weird is a fairly small sliver of the fiction world, but I absolutely fell in love with it while writing Tar. It’s marked by genre-blending, subverted norms, and, yes, a whole ton of weirdn...